Here’s a six minute highlights video of “Hacking Data Intelligence: An hour of critical thinking on how to turn insights into actionable protection of data”.
Joining me for this discussion was:
- Chris Strand (@strandmann), chief compliance officer, IntSights
- Johna Till Johnson (@JohnaTillJohnso), CEO, Nemertes
Plus, we had an appearance from Elliot Lewis, CEO, Keyavi Data.
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HUGE thanks to our sponsor IntSights
Best Bad Idea

Congrats to InfoSec consultant Ian Poynter for giving us this gem of a bad idea. Here are some more good “bad ideas”:
“Collect all data and sell it in dark web.” – Rakesh Elamaran, information technology security associate, ByteBlanket
“Don’t use data intelligence and just buy cyber insurance.” – Dustin Sachs, manager, information security, Performance Food Group
“Hide all data intelligence in Cracker Jack boxes.” – Dustin Sachs, manager, information security, Performance Food Group
“Issue a RFP to the dark web for data intelligence.” – Mathew Biby, CISO, Satcom Direct
Best quotes from the chat room
“AI without ‘verified and real’ data intel is not intelligence. It’s ‘automated misunderstanding’. Need to solve those problems first before it will become truly useful.” – Elliot Lewis, CEO, Keyavi Data
“Humans cannot move quickly enough in terms of critical response. Can humans protect some credit cards? sure. Can they protect nuclear, energy, etc. in real time? No. It must be automated with human validation.” – Scott Schindler, director of business development and partner management, BlackLake Security
“Identity is great; patching should be table stakes; shouldn’t have to mention it and not part of the 3; if you can’t do patching/inventory you aren’t ready for the rest.” – David Zendzian, VMware Tanzu global field CISO, VMware






